Just got an e-mail from Cain Solutions announcing that Herman Cain’s run for the 2012 presidential nomination is officially successful: (Atlanta) Businessman and former presidential frontrunner Herman Cain will take full-time command of the Neal Boortz microphone when Boortz officially retires this January. Boortz announced on his show this morning that he will step down […]
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Romney’s in Town!
Secret Service: The original Big Town Hero Good ol’ Mitt (Mittens?) Romney has stopped by to dine (read: pickpocket) with fancy Portland Republicans. Cue street closures, Secret Service suits, black bloc-ed Occupiers and a girl in a birth control costume! Romney lunched with fellow GOP-ers at the Governor Hotel in downtown Portland this afternoon, attracting […]
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Former Mayoral Candidate Announces Hunger Strike
Alex Zielinski Cameron Whitten, the 21-year-old Occupy Portland participant who finished fifth in the mayoral primary this month, announced the next headline-grabbing chapter for his activism: Come this Saturday, June 2, while thousands of Portlanders are watching the Starlight Parade, Whitten will take up a position outside city hall and begin a hunger strike aimed […]
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Amercia, Fuck Yeah!
The Romney campaign released an iPhone app yesterday that allowed supporters to take their pictures with a Romney campaign slogan plastered over them. How’s that working out for ’em? Mitt Romney can’t spell “America.” Enjoy the inevitable Tumbler: Amercia is With Mitt!
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Mitt Romney Is Hanging Out with Terrible People Today
Tonight, Mitt Romney will be attending a Vegas fundraiser with Donald Trump. The Romney campaign hopes to pull in some $2 million from the event. For that kind of money, Mitt Romney can totally tolerate Donald Trump’s racist birther theories: Mitt Romney said Monday he wasn’t concerned about Donald Trump’s commitment to the “birther” conspiracy, […]
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Barack Obama Smoked a Lot of Pot as a Young Man
BuzzFeed has gone through David Maraniss’s upcoming Obama biography and pulled out the pot-smoking parts. There are quite a few pot-smoking parts: When you were with Barry and his pals, if you exhaled precious pakalolo (Hawaiian slang for marijuana, meaning “numbing tobacco”) instead of absorbing it fully into your lungs, you were assessed a penalty […]
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Gay Marriage Looking Good in Maryland Polls
Public Policy Polling says that gay marriage seems to be polling very well in Maryland: –57% of Maryland voters say they’re likely to vote for the new marriage law this fall, compared to only 37% who are opposed. That 20 point margin of passage represents a 12 point shift from an identical PPP survey in […]
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Your Daily No-Duh
Fox News does not prepare you for questions about news: The study concludes that media sources have a significant impact on the number of questions that people were able to answer correctly. The largest effect is that of Fox News: all else being equal, someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer […]
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Poll Says Nobody Cares About Gay Marriage
A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll says President Obama’s announcement of support for gay marriage hasn’t made a difference at all. This is your daily reminder that polls are stupid: In the poll, a combined 17 percent says it makes them “much more likely” or “somewhat more likely” they will vote for him. That’s compared […]
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Re-Birtherism
It seems that it’s time for birtherism to pop back up again. First, in Arizona, as Dan told you this morning, birthers are trying to get President Obama knocked off the ballot. Second, the late Andrew Breitbart’s site has “discovered” that Barack Obama’s literary agent in 1991 accidentally claimed in promotional materials that Obama was […]
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That’s One Way to Take Arizona Out of Play
So there was this: The Obama campaign is looking to expand the battleground states map to include Arizona, opening campaign offices and registering voters across the state despite its Republican governor, two Republican senators, and a history of voting Republican in presidential elections broken, in the past 50 years, only by Bill Clinton…. “It is […]
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Mitt Romney: “I Stand By What I Said, Whatever It Was”
This is why Mitt Romney doesn’t do press availabilities: This is a response to a question about whether Romney stands by a statement he made on Hannity about Reverend Wright that appears to contradict what Romney’s campaign said today about Reverend Wright being off-limits. You’ll be seeing a lot of this video.